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20 November 2022

In this paper, we prove that for a set of ten univariate stochastic orders including the usual order, a univariate stochastic order preserves either both, one or none of additivity and multiplication properties over the vector space of real-valued ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability Distributions and Their Applications)
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1 Citations
2,975 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2023

In this article, we study stochastic orders over an interval. Mainly, we focus on orders related to the Laplace transform. The results are then applied to obtain a bound for heavy-tailed distributions and are illustrated by some examples. We also ind...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interplay between Financial and Actuarial Mathematics II)
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2 Citations
2,495 Views
11 Pages

Directional Stochastic Orders with an Application to Financial Mathematics

  • María Concepción López-Díaz,
  • Miguel López-Díaz and
  • Sergio Martínez-Fernández

14 February 2021

Relevant integral stochastic orders share a common mathematical model, they are defined by generators which are made up of increasing functions on appropriate directions. Motivated by the aim to provide a unified study of those orders, we introduce a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Models with Applications)
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5 Citations
2,745 Views
22 Pages

27 May 2021

In this article we give theoretical results for different stochastic orders of a log-scale-location family which uses Tsallis statistics functions. These results describe the inequalities of moments or Gini index according to parameters. We also comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Models and Methods with Applications)
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1,058 Views
21 Pages

15 December 2025

The One-X property, introduced by Zetocha in a 2023 paper, provides a novel stochastic order with direct implications for constructing arbitrage-free implied volatility surfaces. The current work revisits its theoretical foundations and explores its...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Modelling in Financial Mathematics, 2nd Edition)
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2 Citations
3,285 Views
15 Pages

4 January 2022

In this paper we focus on providing sufficient conditions for some well-known stochastic orders in reliability but dealing with the discrete versions of them, filling a gap in the literature. In particular, we find conditions based on the unimodality...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
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5 Citations
4,387 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2017

In this overview paper, we introduce an application of stochastic orders in wireless communications. In particular, we show how to use stochastic orders to investigate the ergodic capacity results for fast fading Gaussian memoryless multiuser channel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Information Theory)
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5 Citations
2,116 Views
14 Pages

14 October 2021

The fractional stochastic differential equations had many applications in interpreting many events and phenomena of life, and the nonlocal conditions describe numerous problems in physics and finance. Here, we are concerned with the combination betwe...

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1 Citations
3,130 Views
19 Pages

Stochastic Order and Generalized Weighted Mean Invariance

  • Mateu Sbert,
  • Jordi Poch,
  • Shuning Chen and
  • Víctor Elvira

25 May 2021

In this paper, we present order invariance theoretical results for weighted quasi-arithmetic means of a monotonic series of numbers. The quasi-arithmetic mean, or Kolmogorov–Nagumo mean, generalizes the classical mean and appears in many disciplines,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measures of Information)
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1,614 Views
21 Pages

16 October 2023

In this paper, we consider a failed cold standby system and obtain stochastic bounds on the idle time of such systems. We state and prove that if the last spare in the system is exponentially distributed and if the components have log-concave lifetim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability Analysis and Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering)
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1 Citations
1,245 Views
19 Pages

Some New Results on Stochastic Comparisons of Spacings of Generalized Order Statistics from One and Two Samples

  • Maryam Esna-Ashari,
  • Mahdi Alimohammadi,
  • Elnaz Garousi and
  • Antonio Di Crescenzo

10 May 2024

Generalized order statistics (GOSs) are often adopted as a tool for providing a unified approach to several stochastic models dealing with ordered random variables. In this contribution, we first recall various useful results based on the notion of t...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
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2 Citations
3,047 Views
15 Pages

27 January 2020

The study of spatial and temporal changes in precipitation patterns is important to agriculture and natural ecosystems. These changes can be described by some climate change indices. Because these indices often have skewed probability distributions,...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
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19 Pages

14 June 2024

Expected utility theory is critical for modeling rational decision making under uncertainty, guiding economic agents as they seek to optimize outcomes. Traditional methods often require restrictive assumptions about underlying stochastic processes, l...

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9 Citations
1,864 Views
27 Pages

Numerical Method for Fractional-Order Generalization of the Stochastic Stokes–Darcy Model

  • Abdumauvlen Berdyshev,
  • Dossan Baigereyev and
  • Kulzhamila Boranbek

1 September 2023

This paper is aimed at efficient numerical implementation of the fractional-order generalization of the stochastic Stokes–Darcy model, which has important scientific, applied, and economic significance in hydrology, the oil industry, and biomed...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,576 Views
20 Pages

This paper provides a mathematical proof and theoretical analysis of the one-to-one consistency between higher-order Omega and Almost Stochastic Dominance rules when evaluating fund performance. The consistency between higher-order Omega and Almost N...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics and Finance)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,622 Views
12 Pages

26 October 2018

In this paper, we introduce the evolve-then-filter (EF) regularization method for reduced order modeling of convection-dominated stochastic systems. The standard Galerkin projection reduced order model (G-ROM) yield numerical oscillations in a convec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reduced Order Modeling of Fluid Flows)
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2 Citations
2,108 Views
20 Pages

14 March 2024

In this paper, we consider two finite mixture models (FMMs) with inverted-Kumaraswamy distributed components’ lifetimes. Several stochastic ordering results between the FMMs are obtained. Mainly, we focus on three different cases in terms of th...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
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2,250 Views
14 Pages

26 December 2022

In this article, we introduce and study a new stochastic order of multivariate distributions, namely, the conditional likelihood ratio order. The proposed order and other stochastic orders are analyzed in the case of a bivariate exponential distribut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability, Statistics and Their Applications 2021)
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30 Citations
3,450 Views
12 Pages

31 August 2021

Fractional stochastic differential equations are still in their infancy. Based on some existing results, the main difficulties here are how to deal with those equations if the fractional order is varying with time and how to confirm the existence of...

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Discrete Analogue of Fishburn’s Fractional-Order Stochastic Dominance

  • Hoover H. F. Yin,
  • Xishi Wang,
  • Hugo Wai Leung Mak,
  • Chun Sang Au Yong and
  • Ian Y. Y. Chan

7 June 2023

A stochastic dominance (SD) relation can be defined by two different perspectives: One from the view of distributions, and the other one from the view of expected utilities. In the early days, Fishburn investigated SD from the view of distributions,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mathematics and Its Applications)
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1 Citations
2,379 Views
31 Pages

Stochastic Zeroth-Order Multi-Gradient Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization

  • Zhihao Li,
  • Qingtao Wu,
  • Moli Zhang,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Youming Ge and
  • Guoyong Wang

14 February 2025

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has become an important method in machine learning, which involves solving multiple competing objective problems simultaneously. Nowadays, many MOO algorithms assume that gradient information is easily available and...

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11 Citations
2,851 Views
19 Pages

Fractional-Order Modeling and Stochastic Dynamics Analysis of a Nonlinear Rubbing Overhung Rotor System

  • Heng Zhao,
  • Fubin Wang,
  • Yaqiong Zhang,
  • Zhaoli Zheng,
  • Jiaojiao Ma and
  • Chao Fu

To study the nonlinear dynamic behavior and system stability of a rubbing overhung rotor with viscoelastic and memory-effect damping and random uncertain parameters, this paper introduces a fractional-order modeling and stochastic dynamic analysis me...

(This article belongs to the Section Numerical and Computational Methods)
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13 Citations
1,944 Views
25 Pages

On Extended Class of Totally Ordered Interval-Valued Convex Stochastic Processes and Applications

  • Muhammad Zakria Javed,
  • Muhammad Uzair Awan,
  • Loredana Ciurdariu,
  • Silvestru Sever Dragomir and
  • Yahya Almalki

The intent of the current study is to explore convex stochastic processes within a broader context. We introduce the concept of unified stochastic processes to analyze both convex and non-convex stochastic processes simultaneously. We employ weighted...

(This article belongs to the Section Numerical and Computational Methods)
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1 Citations
1,578 Views
14 Pages

20 September 2023

Sample range and the associated functions such as survival function and mean residual life function have found many important applications in the reliability field. In this work, we establish some results that are in two different directions. In the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Probability Theory and Statistics)
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3 Citations
1,371 Views
23 Pages

Fractional and Higher Integer-Order Moments for Fractional Stochastic Differential Equations

  • Arsalane Chouaib Guidoum,
  • Fatimah A. Almulhim,
  • Mohammed Bassoudi,
  • Kamal Boukhetala and
  • Mohammed B. Alamari

27 April 2025

This study investigates the computation of fractional and higher integer-order moments for a stochastic process governed by a one-dimensional, non-homogeneous linear stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by fractional Brownian motion (fBm). U...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fractional Calculus: Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
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8 Citations
2,295 Views
20 Pages

This paper studies the finite-time synchronization problem of fractional-order stochastic memristive bidirectional associative memory neural networks (MBAMNNs) with discontinuous jumps. A novel criterion for finite-time synchronization is obtained by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional-Order Neural Networks, Volume II)
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12 Citations
2,160 Views
11 Pages

A Numerical Algorithm for Solving Nonlocal Nonlinear Stochastic Delayed Systems with Variable-Order Fractional Brownian Noise

  • Behrouz Parsa Moghaddam,
  • Maryam Pishbin,
  • Zeinab Salamat Mostaghim,
  • Olaniyi Samuel Iyiola,
  • Alexandra Galhano and
  • António M. Lopes

A numerical technique was developed for solving nonlocal nonlinear stochastic delayed differential equations driven by fractional variable-order Brownian noise. Error analysis of the proposed technique was performed and discussed. The method was appl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Systems and Their Applications (DSTA) — in Memory of Prof. Dr. José A. Tenreiro Machado)
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5 Citations
1,600 Views
19 Pages

25 October 2023

To effectively represent photovoltaic (PV) modules while considering their dependency on changing environmental conditions, three novel mathematical and empirical formulations are proposed in this study to model PV curves with minimum effort and shor...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
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10 Citations
6,152 Views
21 Pages

25 August 2017

The portfolio optimization problem is the central problem of modern economics and decision theory; there is the Mean-Variance Model and Stochastic Dominance Model for solving this problem. In this paper, based on the second order stochastic dominance...

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3 Citations
658 Views
17 Pages

26 December 2025

This paper focuses on exploring the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a specific type of impulsive fractional-order complex-valued stochastic neural network within the complex domain, a topic hitherto undocumented. The combination of fraction...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory and Application)
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16 Citations
9,937 Views
19 Pages

15 May 2018

In the field of investment, how to construct a suitable portfolio based on historical data is still an important issue. The second-order stochastic dominant constraint is a branch of the stochastic dominant constraint theory. However, only considerin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms in Computational Finance)
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335 Views
28 Pages

This paper is concerned with the problems of mean-square global dissipativity and global asymptotic stability for a class of stochastic fractional-order memristive BAM neural networks with leakage terms and mixed time-varying delays, including discre...

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10 Citations
8,454 Views
14 Pages

The paper compares portfolio optimization with the Second-Order Stochastic Dominance (SSD) constraints with mean-variance and minimum variance portfolio optimization. As a distribution-free decision rule, stochastic dominance takes into account the e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Modeling Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall)
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23 Citations
2,891 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2021

Aiming at the problems of poor decomposition quality and the extraction effect of a weak signal with strong noise by empirical mode decomposition (EMD), a novel fault diagnosis method based on cascaded adaptive second-order tristable stochastic reson...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing Application to Engineering Design)
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5 Citations
3,131 Views
16 Pages

This paper presents a design and evaluation of a fractional-order self optimizing control (FOSOC) architecture for process control. It is based on a real-time derivative-free optimization layer that adjusts the parameters of a discrete-time fractiona...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
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2 Citations
1,753 Views
11 Pages

In this paper, we are concerned with the combinations of the stochastic Itô-differential and the arbitrary (fractional) orders derivatives in a neutral differential equation with a stochastic, nonlinear, nonlocal integral condition. The existence of...

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Finite-Time Stability of Linear Stochastic Proportional Fractional-Order Systems with Time Delay

  • Raouf Fakhfakh,
  • Rabab Alzahrani,
  • Fatimah Alshahrani,
  • Hend Aljahani,
  • Foued Mtiri and
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf

This paper studies the finite-time stability of linear stochastic fractional-order systems with time delay, in which the dynamics are generated by the proportional Caputo fractional derivative of order ς∈(12,1) with proportional parameter...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
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16 Citations
4,237 Views
15 Pages

A New Second-Order Tristable Stochastic Resonance Method for Fault Diagnosis

  • Lu Lu,
  • Yu Yuan,
  • Heng Wang,
  • Xing Zhao and
  • Jianjie Zheng

1 August 2019

Vibration signals are used to diagnosis faults of the rolling bearing which is symmetric structure. Stochastic resonance (SR) has been widely applied in weak signal feature extraction in recent years. It can utilize noise and enhance weak signals. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Mechanical Engineering)
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1 Citations
1,777 Views
24 Pages

16 May 2025

In this paper, the fixed-time control for high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems under unknown stochastic time delay is investigated via an event-triggered approach. First of all, RBF neural networks are utilized to approximate the system’s u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Modeling, Cooperative Control, and Decision-Making Method for the Collective Large-Scale Intelligent Systems)
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16 Citations
3,023 Views
26 Pages

24 February 2022

This paper researches the issue of the finite-time combination-combination (C-C) synchronization (FTCCS) of fractional order (FO) chaotic systems under multiple stochastic disturbances (SD) utilizing the nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (NTS...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fractional Calculus: Theory and Applications)
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2 Citations
2,070 Views
10 Pages

We investigate pairwise stochastic comparisons of stationary solutions to the linear recurrence Xt+1=AtXt+Bt, where At and Bt are non-negative random variables. We establish novel order-preserving properties, which enable us to obtain comparison theo...

(This article belongs to the Section Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets)
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3 Citations
2,701 Views
13 Pages

23 August 2022

In this article, a new design method for an adaptive fast finite-time controller (FTC) is proposed for the finite-time stability (FTS) issue of a class of high-order stochastic nonlinear systems (HOSNSs) with unknown parameters. Using a power integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear and Stochastic System Control)
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42 Citations
5,641 Views
19 Pages

Integer Versus Fractional Order SEIR Deterministic and Stochastic Models of Measles

  • Md Rafiul Islam,
  • Angela Peace,
  • Daniel Medina and
  • Tamer Oraby

In this paper, we compare the performance between systems of ordinary and (Caputo) fractional differential equations depicting the susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) models of diseases. In order to understand the origins of both approach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infectious Disease Modeling in the Era of Complex Data)
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1 Citations
1,409 Views
29 Pages

25 December 2025

In supply chain management practices, supplier selection (SS) is a critical strategic planning activity that usually constitutes an ex ante decision made under uncertainty, whereas order allocation (OA) represents a subsequent operational decision de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making in Supply Chain and Logistics: Integration of Fuzzy, Stochastic, and Analytical Approaches)
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14 Citations
2,637 Views
33 Pages

This paper deals with the issue of the multi-switching sliding mode combination synchronization (MSSMCS) of fractional order (FO) chaotic systems with different structures and unknown parameters under double stochastic disturbances (SD) utilizing the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Order Controllers: Design and Applications)
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2 Citations
3,986 Views
41 Pages

31 July 2025

We introduce a novel portfolio optimization framework—Distributionally Robust Multivariate Stochastic Cone Order (DR-MSCO)—which integrates partial orders on random vectors with Wasserstein-metric ambiguity sets and adaptive cone structur...

(This article belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)
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2 Citations
681 Views
28 Pages

12 February 2026

Integrated blisk–shaft rotors represent a critical advancement in aero-engine design, offering enhanced structural integrity and weight reduction. However, their complex dynamic behavior under inherent material uncertainties poses significant c...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Simulation and Design)
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17 Pages

25 April 2025

This paper investigates a class of distributed fractional-order stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with a Hurst parameter 1/2<H<1. By employing the Picard iteration method, we rigorously prove the existence a...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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1 Citations
2,011 Views
32 Pages

19 December 2024

This study presents a novel approach that integrates model order reduction (MOR) and generalized stochastic collocation (gSC) to enhance robust design optimization (RDO) of viscoelastic damped composite structures under material and geometric uncerta...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)

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